Strategy 10

Share successes, challenges, and lessons learned from classroom physical activity.

The information collected can be used to identify and share successes, challenges, and lessons learned from classroom physical activity. Dissemination of these findings can guide best practices for both sustainability and improvement. It will also help with future planning and guide professional development needs. Furthermore, celebrating and sharing classroom physical activity successes and their positive effects on students’ health and learning may promote and expand buy-in among teachers and administrators. Teachers can use professional learning communities and grade-level team meetings to share their experiences with each other. Successes, challenges, and lessons learned also could be shared during staff meetings, in newsletters, on a school’s website, and through e-mail.

Citations can be found in Strategies for Classroom Physical Activity in Schools.

Key Activities

Put Strategy 10 into practice through the following activities:

✓ Identify what classroom physical activity information you want to share (for example, successes,  challenges, and lessons learned).

✓ Identify with whom you want to share information or findings (for example, administrators, parents, and community partners).

Note: Consider school staff and partners identified in Strategy 1.

✓ Determine how you will communicate findings (for example, presentation at a parent-teacher association meeting, school newsletter, press release).

Questions for Consideration

Use the following questions to guide key activities and inspire new ideas:

– How will classroom physical activity successes, challenges, and lessons learned be communicated?

– To what extent do teachers, administrators, and staff meet to discuss classroom physical activity successes, challenges, and lessons learned? What opportunities exist to discuss these topics?

– To what extent does your school share the effects or influence of classroom physical activity with partners (for example, students, parents, teachers, administrators, and community partners)?

Resource

Information Collection and Sharing Planning Template
Use this template to to identify information of interest and methods of collection, as well as ways to share the information of interest and methods of communication.

Information Collection and Sharing Planning Template (Springboard to Active Schools)

This template can be used to plan for “Strategy 9: Collect information on classroom physical activity” and “Strategy 10: Share successes, challenges, and lessons learned from classroom physical activity”. Use this template to to identify information of interest and methods of collection, as well as ways to share the information of interest and methods of communication.

Let’s Move West Virginia (West Virginia Department of Education)

The “Let’s Move! WV Success Form” can be downloaded and modified for use within your school to share physical activity success stories.

Move to Learn (Move to Learn, Program)

Examples of short, first-hand success stories and lessons learned from Mississippi educators.